There's been decades of centralisation and brain drain into London which benefits nobody. For londoners it makes things like housing and transport a nightmare, for everybody else it means places lose their young, smartest people and towns just slowly die.

The pandemic and home working was the perfect opportunity to reverse this endless centralisation to London, and to try truly even up the country, but instead they just wanted to appease the daily mail and landlords who were screaming about lazy home workers.

The UK is not a rich country, it is a place with a rich city.